Raining In Portland chords by Cheryl Wheeler

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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It’s raining in Portland but I’m still glad to be here
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I love the northwest and I don’t mind the gray
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Feels like there’s lots of old hippies like me here
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Suits me just fine is what I’ve got to say
   C# minorC#m          D MajorD
The world is so crazy and angry and greedy
 B minorBm       F# minorF#m       E MajorE
Turn off the TV, turn from the fray
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I can’t explain it, I can just say that
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it felt great to wake up in Portland today

Interlude:
A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD  E MajorE

Verse 2:
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Life in the folk lane is har dly a highway
   D MajorD              (A augmentedA)   E MajorE
It’s more like a bike path with Holiday Inns
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Once I was 14 and dreaming that someday
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I’d travel along it and see where it ends
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14 could never see 60 too clearly
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60 sees 14 not fading away
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Got no dreams to make up, no bones to take up
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Just felt great to wake up in Portland today

Interlude:
A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD  E MajorE

A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD  E MajorE

Bridge:
B minorBm   F# minorF#m    E MajorE
April gray and white
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Cold that can’t convince
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Something changed the light
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I was standing in

Verse 3:
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Hotels and highways can blur in the rearview
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till where you are going is where you have been
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Somehow in Portland there’s something to steer to
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something to lift you and usher you in
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Bridges and pine trees, gray sky and water
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hushed all the bother, washed it away
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Something got mended, stirred up and blended
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kindly attended in Portland today.

Interlude:
A augmentedA F# minorF#m D MajorD  E MajorE

Outro:
 A augmentedA          F# minorF#m
Something got mended, stirred up and blended
 D MajorD         E MajorE    A augmentedA
kindly attended in Portland today.